Puppy Website: Looks, Bugs, Wishlists

[HairyWill]

Whilst were on this learning curve with drupal, would it be a good idea for a seperate drupal tips/tweaks thread?

Will, you seem fairly au fait with it, do you think 'too many cooks' may apply if we don't keep a tally of changes?

In reality I think most of the cooks are out the back having a ciggie, though I agree it would be good to keep a record of changes.

As far as content goes then the revisions system should be able to record changes though currently I think that this is turned off by default for everything except wiki pages. It would also be possible to enable the diff module for content types other than wiki nodes as well. I'm not sure how much this might cost CPU/storage.

I'm not au fait with it at all, I'm just gung ho and not scared of breaking things. Having an admin changelog might be good. Site configuration has slowed down and this would make it easier to back out of any changes that cause a problem. Should this be a wiki page?

I think we should start deleting comments that are more than a couple of weeks old that are no longer relevant. I'm looking at the wiki main page and there is no obvious mechanism to delete comments.

[tombh]

I've been away for a bit, so excuse me if I've forgotten to respond to any of the points raised.

Firstly I think the idea of some rules 'written in stone' is a must for the reasons already discussed. So next step is a draft version, anybody willing?

I entirely agree with the opinions expressed and changes made regarding the Latest News, RSS feeds and permissions. I'm also glad that that the recent spam and screenshot shenanigans was easily dealt with. Just to be clear, ever since a captcha form was placed on the registration page a few weeks ago, bots can no longer register with the site and automatically post spam. However, this means there was a period when the captcha wasn't in place so it may be a possibility that there are some bots registered on the site.

I think blatant spammers should be banned by both username and IP address. Until we know what we're doing don't forget that it'd be good to record the IP and username of the guilty spammer before the spam is removed and the details are lost.

A quick browse through Drupal's huge selection of modules came up with the Flag module. Don't forget to have a look at Drupal's modules when your thinking about solving new problems, there's almost always someone whose already come up with a solution. It'd be best if each piece of content, even comments, just had a one-click "quarantine this" button underneath it that editors and above could access. There doesn't seem to be a module that provides exactly this functionality, though I haven't looked very hard yet, and I can always hack the flag module if needs be.

On the subject of Drupal, I've added some links on the Website Help page; some good guides and introductions to developing. I love Drupal and am very happy to help anybody interested in learning more about it.

[tombh]

I'd done a silly thing to his paw,
Because toes he had less then the four!
But as of today,
We can happily say,
That this isn't the case any more

(You might have to hit refresh a few times though to see the change)

[HairyWill]

nice

(You might have to hit refresh a few times though to see the change)

that doesn't rhyme

[oblivious]

That this isn't the case any more

Yay!

[WhoDo]

I'd done a silly thing to his paw,
Because toes he had less then the four!
But as of today,
We can happily say,
That this isn't the case any more

raffy will be very pleased.

[Aitch]

@tombh

excellent!!

Aitch

[raffy]

But as of today,
We can happily say,

Count his paws and it's four!

There must be a poem and song section somewhere. I knew Pizzasgood has done quite a lot of stanzas already.

Headfound's could be the featured video/song at the top of that page.

[Aitch]

Just what we need raffy: -

Headline: A 'bad poetry to music' page
subtitle: 'Think yours is worse?'

tongue firmly in cheek of course,

we could have fun with it, you know what open invites to poets/musos brings up, I'm sure?

Absolute hilarity, if the energy goes well!

anyone got a gif, I haven't got a tongue in cheek?

We can always maintain 'editorial prerogative'

No offence to headfound if his song goes at the top, though

what say you?

Aitch

[raffy]

Perfect - Aitch can hunt down those stanzas in the forum. Here's an example:

Sanity Implodes by Pizzasgood
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22336

And Aitch, don't miss the caption in Headfound's "Puppy Linux Song":
"advert for Puppy Linux, with superb singing!!"